Archive for the ‘Our House’ Category

24 welcome to my crazy

It’s been a quiet week around here. And by here I mean here, not here as in my house because O boy would that be far from the truth. No, here here there has been the constant sound of sheetrock saws cutting holes in ceilings for recessed lighting and in walls for outlets. There has been a pretty [...]

23 peeled back

Friends, I pulled up so much old flooring this weekend that I can hardly see straight. There was the faux wood that the most recent owners had put down (which, hi. Why would you put down fake wood next to real, beautiful original wood? You’re not going to fool anyone.), below that was a layer [...]

16 Guess what, buddy.

I realize that there are massive amounts of playdough crumbles on the ground here. But, well, scroll down and you’ll see why I didn’t bother to sweep them up. “Hey, OBoy. See that wall behind you?” “Yes, that one. The one that’s been there everyday while we ate breakfast.” “Well, we’re going to tear it [...]

49 next up

We passed our final inspection on the upstairs remodel last week (!!!!!!!), which means that we spent the weekend knee deep in our next project, naturally. I referred to the now-finished ‘upstairs upgrade’ as the ‘house project of the decade’, but clearly I was wrong because here we are in the same decade and boy, [...]